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AQUITAINE, the name of an ancient province in France, the extent of which has varied considerably from time to time. About the time of Julius Caesar the name Aquilania was given to that part of Gaul lying between the Pyrenees and the Garonne, and its inhabitan ...

AQUAMARINE (Lat. aqua marina, " water of the sea "), a transparent variety of beryl (q.v.), having a delicate blue or bluish-green colour, suggestive of the tint of sea-water. It occurs at most localities which yield ordinary beryl, some of the finest coming f

... ch Th. v. A. (Paderborn, 1894); A. Harnack, Hist, of Dogma (trans. \Vm. AQUINO— AQUITAINE Gilchrist, London. 1899); Ueberweg's History of Philosophy, vol. i. See also H. C. O'Neill, New Things and Old in St Thomas Aquinas (1909), with biography. (T. M. L. ; J. ...

... made between England and France in October 1360. He was afterwards governor of Aquitaine and great seneschal of Poitou, and took part in the capture of the town of La Rochesur-Yon by Edmund, earl of Cambridge. He died in 1386 at Fontenay-le-Comte, where he ha ...

... n attempt to annex the great county of Toulouse, and so to carry the borders of Aquitaine to the Mediterranean, which distracted him. Naturally Louis of France was unwilling to see his great vassal striding all across his realm, and did what he could to hinder ...

... s from the treaty of Verdun (843), by which Charles the Bald received Neustria, Aquitaine and western Burgundy, Louis the German Bavaria, Swabia, Saxony and Thuringia, and the emperor Lothair the middle kingdom known by his name, the regnum Lotkarii or Lothari ...